History & Aims Festival Organization The Team Previous Festivals 1995-2010 Previous Workshops / Lectures Publications / Video dance productions

COMPANIES 1995 - 2010 72 international & 31 national companies 171 performances by international companies 61 performances by Greek companies 60 Greek premieres 8 productions, 2 co-productions 1st Festival 1995 HORΙΚΑ / ΖΟUΖΟU ΝΙΚΟLOUDI (a Kalamata International Dance Centre production) LYKION ELLINIDON KALAMATAS (KALAMATA LYCEUM OF GREEK WOMEN) STARS OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET MOMIX DANCETHEATRE OKTANA 2nd Festival 1996 EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE BALLET PRELJOCAJ (Greek premiere) STARS OF NEW YORK BALLET DOUG VARONE & DANCERS (Greek premiere) SINEQUANON & LATHOS KINISSI (commissioned by Kalamata International Dance Centre) DAVID DORFMAN DANCE (Greek premiere) 3rd Festival 1997 BOUVIER / OBADIA (Greek premiere) EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE (Kalamata International Dance Centre production) ARAKNE MEDITERRANEA (Greek premiere) HARIS MANDAFOUNIS CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY (co-production with Kalamata International Dance Centre) GREEK DANCE SOLOS: PERSA STAMATOPOULOU - NATASSA AVRA - MACHI DIMITRIADOU-LINDAHL - APOSTOLIA PAPADAMAKI CLASSICAL BALLET STARS TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere) EL FARRUCO Y SU COMPANIA (Greek premiere) 4th Festival 1998 TWYLA THARP (Greek premiere) ANALIA DANCE COMPANY (commissioned by Kalamata International Dance Centre, co-production with Analia Dance Company) SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere) EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE OKTANA DANCE THEATRE (commissioned by Kalamata International Dance Centre, co-production with Oktana Dance Theatre) D.C.A. PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ (Greek premiere) 5th Festival 1999 MURRAY LOUIS & NIKOLAIS DANCE (Greek premiere) INBAL PINTO DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere) SMALL DANCE THEATRE HARIS MANDAFOUNIS CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY RUSSELL MALIPHANT DANCE (Greek premiere) RUI HORTA STAGE WORKS (Greek premiere) EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE 6th Festival 2000 BALLET DE L’OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LYON COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD (Greek premiere) OKTANA DANCE THEATRE ELATERIO DANCE COMPANY ANALIA DANCE COMPANY / IOANNA PORTOLOU ROSEMARY BUTCHER DANCE PROJECTS (Greek premiere) LIAT DROR & NIL BEN GAL COMPANY (Greek premiere) BEAU GESTE / DOMINIQUE BOIVIN (Greek premiere) TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY 7th Festival 2001 BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY AKRAM KHAN COMPANY (Greek premiere) TANZCOMPAGNIE RUBATO (Greek premiere) CHORICA/ZOUZOU NIKOLOUDI ΟΜΑΔΑ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΥ ΧΟΡΟΥ ΜΕΤΑΚΙΝΗΣΗ ULTIMA VEZ / WIM VANDEKEYBUS (Greek premiere) LANÒNIMA IMPERIAL (Greek premiere) JÉRÔME BEL (Greek premiere) EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE 8th Festival 2002 RONALD K. BROWN / EVIDENCE (Greek premiere) ROBYN ORLIN CITY THEATRE & DANCE GROUP (Greek premiere) STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY (Greek premiere) PROSXIMA CHOREFTES RUSSELL MALIPHANT COMPANY MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY COMPAGNIE KÄFIG (Greek premiere) 9th Festival 2003 INBAL PINTO DANCE COMPANY COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD XAVIER LE ROY (Greek premiere) ANDONIS FONIADAKIS (a Kalamata International Dance Centre commission and production – world premiere) HARIS MANDAFOUNIS CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY MEG STUART / DAMAGED GOODS (Greek premiere) TERO SAARINEN COMPANY (Greek premiere) GEORGE PIPER DANCES (Greek premiere) CECIL MIKROUTSIKOU / GRIFFÓN DANCE COMPANY DANCE THEATRE MET’EMBODION GELABERT - AZZOPARDI CIA DE DANSA (Greek premiere) NASSER MARTIN-GOUSSET / LA MAISON (Greek premiere) 10th Festival 2004 COMPAGNIE D.C.A. PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ IRVEN LEWIS DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere) ΜΙCHAEL CLARK (Greek premiere) DANCE THEATRE OF NATIONAL THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE / OKTANA DANCE THEATRE SINEQUANON JÉRÔME BEL JAN FABRE (Greek premiere) TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY 11th Festival 2005 ROSAS (Greek premiere) ANNAHUBER.COMPAGNIE. (Greek premiere) GIANNIS MANDAFOUNIS – KATERINA SKIADA PELMA DANCE COMPANY (Greek premiere) SINEQUANON PRUE LANG (Greek premiere) LES BALLETS C DE LA B (Greek premiere) DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOY 12th Festival 2006 BALLET PRELJOCAJ DAVID ZAMBRANO – HERMES MALKOTSIS YASMEEN GODDER (Greek premiere) VIA KATLEHONG DANCE (Greek premiere) ZOE DIMITRIOU NOEMA DANCE WORKS (Greek premiere) X-IT PEEPING TOM (Greek premiere) SONIA BAPTISTA (Greek premiere) LIQUID LOFT (Greek premiere) EMANUEL GAT DANCE 13th Festival 2007 ULTIMA VEZ / WIM VANDEKEYBUS BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY COMPAGNIES BEAU GESTE & NON DE NOM TONEELHUIS / SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI CAROLINE HAINAUT & PALLE DYRVALL (Greek premiere) LES BALLETS C DE LA B X-IT ROOTLESSROOT 14th Festival 2008 HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY VUYANI DANCE THEATRE (Greek premiere) VERA MANTERO & GUESTS (Greek premiere) JONATHAN BURROWS & MATTEO FARGION (Greek premiere)  VIA KATLEHONG DANCE QUASI STELLAR / APOSTOLIA PAPADAMAKI STORM & DISCÍPULOS DO RÍTMO (Greek premiere) PERE FAURA (Greek premiere) SANKAI JUKU 15th Festival 2009 SABURO TESHIGAWARA / KARAS (Greek premiere) COMPAGNIE EA SOLA (Greek premiere) JOSEF NADJ JASMIN VARDIMON COMPANY APOTOSOMA ADLIBDANCES PEEPING TOM IRAQIS BODIES (Greek premiere) MATHILDE MONNIER & LA RIBOT (Greek premiere) XAVIER LE ROY MATHILDE MONNIER 16th Festival 2010 CCN - BALLET DE LORRAINE TROUBLEYN | JAN FABRE .PELMA.LIA HARAKI ZOI DIMITRIOU LA MACANA (Greek premiere) ASSOCIATION DAM – CESPI (Greek premiere) NOEMA DANCE WORKS LES BALLETS C DE LA B LEMURIUS THÉÂTRE DE SURESNES JEAN VILAR (Greek premiere) Companies Parallel Activities